Tag Archives: Sarah Gadon

All My Puny Sorrows review — All-Canadian misery porn

April 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael McGowan | Written by McGowan from the novel by Miriam Toews | 103 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave "Your mother and I buried 14 brothers and sisters," says Mimi Kuzyk's Aunt Tina. Cue a wretched groan from this viewer. I can acknowledge the courage and effort it takes to bring to the… Read More

Indignation review — Literate drama and tragedy

August 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by James Schamus | Written by Schamus, adapting the novel by Philip Roth | 110 min | ▲▲▲▲△ A refreshing counter-program offering in these dog days of summer, Indignation is a literate, thoughtful, and affecting drama from a filmmaker best known as a producer and screenwriter, a creative collaborator to Ang Lee on films like The… Read More

Dracula Untold review — Anemic and uninspired

October 14, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Gary Shore, written by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, with characters by Bram Stoker | 92 min | On Demand I always feel it's important to mention the origin of characters showing up in movies. In this case, Dracula Untold is a prequel of sorts to Bram Stoker's Dracula. I wish it came with a disclaimer:… Read More

The Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Love Is All You Need, Antiviral and Tuesday

September 18, 2012 flawintheiris

Love Is All You Need is exactly the kind of romantic comedy Hollywood has almost entirely forgotten how to make. It gave me a rush, for both it's delicate balance of realism and sentiment and from sheer recognition of a beloved genre that I've missed: oh, yeah, this is how it's done when it's done… Read More

A Dangerous Method review

January 15, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by David Cronenberg Written by Christopher Hampton, from his play A Talking Cure, which was adapted from the book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr. I have really been enjoying the Viggo Mortensen era of David Cronenberg's work. Mortensen has starred in the past three Cronenbergs, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and… Read More